Louis VI of France

Louis VI "the Fat" of France (1 December 1059-1 August 1137) was King of France from 1108 to 1137. He succeeded Philip I, and was succeeded by his son Louis VII.

Biography
Louis the Fat was the son of Philip I of France and his wife Bertrada de Montfort, and he became King of France in 1108 after his father's death. He spent the twenty-nine years of his reign fighting against the robber barons of the outskirts of Paris and the Kingdom of England for Normandy, having spent his pre-regnal years fighting Robert of Normandy and the lord of the Ile-de-France region. When he died in 1137, he was succeeded by King Louis VII of France, his son.